[It hurts to hear, because Kido understands how he feels. How any day, they might wake up and she'll be gone again, like some dream they shared from their wish to see her again. He isn't lying, speaking from everything good and bad that they feel, and Kido hears too much in it.]
...She wanted us to smile. You're right. She knows how we feel. That we're scared... of the day she leaves. But if we live in fear of it, we'll just make her sad. What kind of people would we be to make her time here watching us be miserable?
[Still that question nags her. Shintaro himself said it. Why did she have to die? Kido doesn't say it but the strange silence between her words asks it for her. She didn't want them to be miserable, she had friends and family, why did it go wrong?
Kido bites her lip. And now she's here and... they have to make up for that time, the time they couldn't save her and make her smile. That mission means the most, even if it won't mean anything in the end.]
...Maybe... maybe this is our chance to give her some peace. [That morbid outlook gets even Kido choked up and she unconsciously tugs on her hood.] Look, I said it before. You weren't the only one who took those days for granted or missed something. This is all we can do now. If we can't make her smile this time and forget for a little way that these days are going to disappear, too, than what good are we?
[She glances at him, taking a slow breath.] After mom died, she said... we could all still smile and that would be enough. Her smile for you, the person she tried so hard to reach... you have a lot on your shoulders. You realise it now. It might not change the past but she better have a sincere smile everyday, got it?
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...She wanted us to smile. You're right. She knows how we feel. That we're scared... of the day she leaves. But if we live in fear of it, we'll just make her sad. What kind of people would we be to make her time here watching us be miserable?
[Still that question nags her. Shintaro himself said it. Why did she have to die? Kido doesn't say it but the strange silence between her words asks it for her. She didn't want them to be miserable, she had friends and family, why did it go wrong?
Kido bites her lip. And now she's here and... they have to make up for that time, the time they couldn't save her and make her smile. That mission means the most, even if it won't mean anything in the end.]
...Maybe... maybe this is our chance to give her some peace. [That morbid outlook gets even Kido choked up and she unconsciously tugs on her hood.] Look, I said it before. You weren't the only one who took those days for granted or missed something. This is all we can do now. If we can't make her smile this time and forget for a little way that these days are going to disappear, too, than what good are we?
[She glances at him, taking a slow breath.] After mom died, she said... we could all still smile and that would be enough. Her smile for you, the person she tried so hard to reach... you have a lot on your shoulders. You realise it now. It might not change the past but she better have a sincere smile everyday, got it?